Woke mayhem at McCarter & English and bare-knuckle politics in Essex County, N.J. threaten the 2026 NYC SEAL swim. But no one counted on a man who wouldn’t quit.

On Tuesday night, Sept. 3, Ilya Bratman—U.S. Army veteran, CUNY English teacher, and Hillel executive director at eight CUNY and SUNY schools—hosted a welcome-back dinner for Hillel students at a kosher restaurant near Baruch College. Soon after…

Ari Kalker fought in the 551st commando brigade in northern Gaza until the end of January. He is an infantryman whose job it is to protect and provide support to the battalion commander and his team of officers (fire support, intelligence, and so on)…

Itai Reuveni, a 40-year-old Israeli father, was awakened in his home near Jerusalem during the early morning hours of Oct. 7 by the eerie wail of incoming rocket sirens and the explosions of Iron Dome interceptors in the sky over his head. Not long…

It was a belated awakening. For many American Jews, Oct. 7 uncovered the deep rot in the elite institutions they had invested in for decades, psychically and financially. A recent poll found that 73% of Jewish students experienced or witnessed…

Israeli street artist Nitzan Mintz, 32, and her partner, Dede Bandaid, 36, had just arrived in New York to study at an art residency, when Hamas terrorists crashed through the Gaza border fence and unleashed their barbaric rampage of murder, rape,…

A young musician fought back against COVID lockdowns by taking music into the streets of Manhattan and saved us all Last year, a few weeks before COVID-19 descended over the land, I bought tickets to the late show at New York’s temple of jazz, the…

A new memoir from Neal Karlen, the writer formerly known as Prince’s favorite reporter I remember when Neal Karlen was invited to interview Prince, the most famous rock star on the planet, for a Rolling Stone cover story in 1985. Neal had been…

The state’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is even worse than you imagined In the fall of 2016, California’s then Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a mandate to develop an ethnic studies program for high schools in California. California’s…

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jerry Kammer investigates the connection between uncontrolled immigration, the fraying of the American social fabric, and the rise of Donald Trump Several years ago, I had coffee with a journalist friend before he…

A stolen de Kooning was found in the New Mexico home of a pair of Jewish retirees. It wasn’t their only secret. The day after Thanksgiving in 1985, just before opening time, a mustachioed man and a woman with a kerchief over her hair, both wearing…

With help from a popular Arab columnist and Martha Wainwright, Hasidic prayer knits together a neighborhood On a recent April day, Jennifer Dorner, a resident of the Outremont neighborhood of Montreal, heard spirited singing outside her home. She…

Everything is going to change after COVID-19 A friend from Israel called this morning. This is a man I listen to carefully, because for his 28 years of service in the IDF as a covert operator, he beat the odds and survived by reading his environment…

About the author Emily Benedek, the author of five books, has contributed to, among other publications, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Tablet, and Rolling Stone. Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century”—the most recent American effort…

Bar Reuven was in the subway in Brooklyn when he saw someone collapse on the platform. The 29-year-old Israeli moved instantly toward the trouble. He knelt beside the young woman, made sure she could breathe, and performed a quick medical check. He…

A reporter who knew the late Arizona senator throughout his political career remembers an imperfect man who tried to do what was right One summer day in 1988, John McCain was walking me around his weekend getaway near Sedona, Ariz. There were no…

A few years ago, the Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini encountered two protesters outside of an event in Boston. They were young women carrying placards denouncing the “genocide” that Israel was committing against the Palestinians. Yemini initiated…

This legendary old boys’ club desperately needs more female agents to fight crime and terrorism. Meet Jennifer Coffindaffer, one of their toughest, as she busts the bad guys—in heels, no less!

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